1. Marine Corps Leadership Development

2. EFPB Task 24-04
MARFORS/MCCDC (TECOM): This EFPB directs commands to establish and conduct Force Preservation Councils at the O5 command level on a monthly basis for the active component and no less that semi-annually for the reserve component.
Clear, formal process to elevate at-risk Marines and Sailors for command attention…
…facilitate and force meaningful interaction between junior and senior Marines across the spectrum of leadership…

3. Marine Corps Leadership Interaction and Assistance Model
Focused Self-Development
Collaborative Leadership Involvement
Direct Command
Involvement
Recurring Communication

4. Proposed Leadership Doctrine Hierarchy (Representative Example)
Marine Corps Manual
Joint Ethics Regulations
NAVMC 2563
Armed Forces Officer
MCDP 1 Warfighting
MCDP 6 Command
and Control
MCXP X Marine Corps
Leadership
(Hierarchy Status TBD)
MCDP 1-2 Campaigning
MCWP X-11 Leading Marines
MCWP X-21 Developing
Marine Leaders
MCDP 1-3 Tactics
NAVMC 2660 USMC Leadership Program
Beginning the Transformation
MCRD PI
MCO Civilian Leadership Development
MCO CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
MCXP X Leading Marines incorporates information from the current “Leading Marines” pub.
PDOs for MCXP X Marine Corps Leadership; MCWP X-11 Leading Marines; and MCWP X-21 Developing Marine Leaders are at MCCDC (since Dec 10).
NAVMC DIR
Marine Corps Mentoring Program Guidebook
MCO USMC
Mentoring Program
MCRP 6-11D Sustaining the
Transformation
INDEX
Existing publication
MCO Marine Corps
Values Program
MCO USMC Thinking and
Decision-making Exercises
Proposed publication
MCRP 6-11B Marine Corps Values:
A Users Guide for Discussion Leaders
Publication to be re-written

5. Update Leadership Pubs - Status
Proposed Leadership Pubs Hierarchy - Complete
Proposed Leadership Doctrine Manual – Operating Draft Complete
Re-write of MCWP X-11 – In Work
Writing MCWP X-21 – In Work
Draft PDOs for MCXP X; MCWP X-11; MCWP X-21 with MCCDC
MCO – new draft complete
NAVMC – working new draft, updating is taking longer than we thought
FPC MCO Draft – complete, in MCATS for initial staffing

6. WRAP-UP
Update Leadership Pubs – In work, draft Leadership Doctrinal Pub should be ready for staffing the end of the summer; others to follow.
Improve Mentoring – Flesh out the concept for a Leadership Interaction and Assistance Program; write and rewrite the MCOs/Pubs; align in the Leadership T&E Continuum; gain CMC acceptance and approval.
Write, staff, publish FPC MCO
Because Counseling is primarily focused on the chain of command and unit mission accomplishment, it does not address critical aspects of senior/junior relationships, such as the various forms of mentoring.
In many instances, the focal point of the Counseling program has become very negative, and is often used by Marine leaders as a way to document failures and possibly punish a Marine instead of providing constructive feedback (positive or negative).
The Mentoring program attempts to rectify the inadequacies of the Counseling program by replacing the concept of counseling with the concept of mentoring; however, these leadership interactions are complementary, not interchangeable.
The de-facto assignment of mentors has degraded the trust between mentors/protégés, establishing counter-productive limits to the relationship for both parties.
Under the Mentoring program, a Marine’s mentor is his/her immediate senior, eroding a key concept of the mentoring process, the chemistry that leads mentors/protégés to establish rapport.
The Mentoring program stressed only one type of mentoring, formalized, missing the opportunity to fully utilize the practices of informal, sponsorship, and developmental mentoring.
NAVMC Marine Corps Mentoring Program Guidebook, a 148 page user’s guide, is overly long and cumbersome, with proclivity towards counseling vice mentoring.
Adding to the confusion, the Marine Corps Mentoring Order and its primary guide, NAVMC Directive , the Marine Corps Mentoring Program Guidebook, are contradictory regarding the role of the Marine Corps Counseling program. MCO states that the Marine Corps Mentoring program does not replace the Counseling program and NAVMC Dir states that it does replace it. In their current form, the Counseling program and the Mentoring program exist simultaneously which has had a negative impact on their execution.
Complete

7. Questions